Puppet Masters
Four months later, on August 29, just as Kiev began losing its attempt at ethnic cleansing against the eastern Donbas region, the IMF signed off on the first loan ever to a side engaged in a civil war, not to mention rife with insider capital flight and a collapsing balance of payments. Based on fictitiously trouble-free projections of the ability to pay, the loan supported Ukraine's hernia currency long enough to enable the oligarchs' banks to move their money quickly into Western hard-currency accounts before the hernia plunged further and was worth even fewer euros and dollars.
This loan demonstrates the degree to which the IMF is an arm of U.S. Cold War politics. Kiev used the loan for military expenses to attack the Eastern provinces, and the loan terms imposed the usual budget austerity, as if this would stabilize the country's finances. Almost nothing will be received from the war-torn East, where basic infrastructure has been destroyed for power generation, water, hospitals and the civilian housing areas that bore the brunt of the attack. Nearly a million civilians are reported to have fled to Russia. Yet the IMF release announced: "The IMF praised the government's commitment to economic reforms despite the ongoing conflict."[1] A quarter of Ukraine's exports normally are from eastern provinces, and are sold mainly to Russia. But Kiev has been bombing Donbas industry and left its coal mines without electricity.

This picture taken on October 31, 2013, shows workers welding pipes during the symbolic start of the construction of the Bulgarian section of Russian gas giant Gazprom's South Stream pipeline near the village of Rasovo.
- Ukraine today received request from Poland to ship 11mcm/d of Russian gas, Ihor Prokopiv, CEO of Ukraine's pipeline operator Uktransgaz, says in Kiev. Gazprom sent note it's ready to supply just 7mcm, Prokopiv says
- Poland halted reverse gas flow to Ukraine of 4mcm/d by 3pm Warsaw, later than initially planned, Prokopiv
- Gazprom says gas flows to Poland remaining at 23mcm/d
In the past few years, Hollywood, which has long held a mirror to society's myriad blemishes, began to focus its lens on the United States' controversial drone program - a battalion of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) issuing targeted missile attacks largely in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Northwest Pakistan. A drone targeting suspected terrorist Abu Nazir killed his family, setting into motion the events of Showtime's Homeland. The Fox miniseries 24: Live Another Day saw a massive drone wreak havoc on London. The superhero blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past involved Jennifer Lawrence and Co. going back in time to stop a campaign to unleash mutant-targeting drones, dubbed Sentinels. And another, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, centered on the nefarious organization Hydra's attempt to launch a trio of drone-dispatching megaships over the country for our own protection.
But never has the drone program, first implemented by then-President George W. Bush and accelerated under President Barack Obama, been critiqued with the level of precision and humanity as it does in Good Kill, which made its world premiere at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.
The film, which bears the disclaimer "based on actual events," is set in 2010 during the greatest string of targeting killing in our nation's history. That year, the U.S. carried out approximately 122 drone strikes, according to data supplied by the New America Foundation - killing 849 people, including 788 militants, 16 civilians, and 45 unidentified victims. By comparison, in the six previous years of the drone program's existence, 100 strikes were issued.
"Someone really wants to unleash a new arms race," Russia's president said at a meeting with senior defense industry officials. "We, of course, are not going to be involved in this race."
Putin tasked the defense industry to work out a new military doctrine by December. His comments came a week after Russia said Sept. 2 it would review the doctrine, in response to NATO announcing its intentions to expand in Eastern Europe amid Ukrainian crisis.
In the meantime a number of other countries would like to join the BRICS, including Argentina, Venezuela, Iran, Mongolia, Malaysia and others, which would result in about one third of the world's economic output and half of the global inhabitants.
This gives the BRICS a profile of strength surpassing that of the United States and Europe together. China alone is not only already the world's largest economy, China is also dominating the Asian market of some 4.2 billion people, 60% of the world populations and a combined GDP of about US$ 20 trillion, equivalent to about US$ 25 trillion, when comparing purchasing power with the dollar based US economy of about US$ 17 trillion. Asia registered an average growth rate of almost 8% over the past few years, compared to that of the western world, hovering around 1%.
There is no need for the BRICS to fear US interference - divide to rein - if they are able to solidify their union with solidarity - political and monetary solidarity, as well as common trade policies - and if they have the political will to decouple their economies from the dollar - which is key for the BRICS success.
Comment: See also:
- Another BRICS member stands up!: India slams US global hegemony by scuttling global trade deal putting future of WTO in doubt
- 10 major outcomes of BRICS summit
- Putin blamed for #MH17 to launch attack on BRICS creation of real world bank to replace US fake world bank
- BRICS creation signals shift towards new "global architecture"
- BRICS establishes fairer alternative in global economic system dominated by greedy Western powers
- Western greed largely responsible for impetus to create BRICS new development bank
"We will approve the 'Wall' project," Yatsenyuk said at a cabinet meeting.
The border with Russia is 2,295 km long. It is necessary to immediately close the border, deputy border guard chief Pavel Shisholin said, when presenting the plan.
The plan calls for immediately starting engineering work to dig a four-metre wide and two-metre deep ditch and equip it with electronic systems. The border in the sea is also planned to be under full electronic monitoring.
Yatsenyuk said the government would apply to the EU for financial aid to impalement the project, adding the government had funds to implement the first stage.
A Russian senator said bridges, not walls and ditches, should be built between Russia and Ukraine.
"Yatsenyuk's statement about construction of a moat or a wall or mining of the border is quite an inadmissible move of history planned by Kiev authorities," Yuri Vorobyov, deputy chairman of the Russian parliament's upper house Federation Council, said on Thursday, commenting on Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's statement about construction of a wall on the border with Russia.
Comment: Yats shows his true ideological forebears: East Germany and Israel.
Comment: With the recent release of the Dutch Safety Board's preliminary report on the downing of MH17, it's important to keep several points in mind. Mark Whitney's piece below, published 5 days before the DSB's report, points out some of the most important aspects of the information war.

MH17's cockpit voice recorder. The external serial number was readable; that on the data plate was not.
"There is no innocent explanation for the sudden disappearance of MH17 from the media and political spotlight. The plane's black box has been held in Britain for examination for weeks, and US and Russian spy satellites and military radar were intensively scanning east Ukraine at the time of the crash. The claim that Washington does not have detailed knowledge of the circumstances of the crash and the various forces involved is not credible."The Obama administration has failed to produce any hard evidence that pro-Russia separatists were responsible for the downing of Malaysia Flight 17. The administration's theory - that the jetliner was downed by a surface-to-air missile launched from rebel territory in east Ukraine - is not supported by radar data, satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony or forensic evidence. In fact, there is no factual basis for the hypothesis at all. It's merely politically-motivated speculation that's been repeated endlessly in the media to shape public opinion. The preponderance of evidence suggests a different scenario altogether, that is, that MH17 was shot down by Ukrainian fighters in an effort to frame the pro-Russia separatists and demonize Russia by implication. This is precisely why the MH17 story has vanished from all the major media for the last three weeks. It's because the bloody fingerprints point to Obama's puppet-government in Kiev.
- Niles Williamson, "Why have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?", World Socialist Web Site
See: 11 minute you tube "MH17 - We know with 99% certainty who shot down MH17"
So what are the facts?

The trajectory of the Malaysian Boeing that crashed over Ukraine in July shows the missile that allegedly hit the aircraft had been launched from the areas to the west of the crash area.
General Jean du Verdier, who has previously worked for the French Permanent Aviation Safety Council, said in an interview Monday that if the plane fell near the village of Torez, about 25 miles from the Russian border, according to his calculations, "the shot was fired from deep in the Ukrainian territory."
"The area [where the plane exploded] cannot be near Torez. It is much further to the west! Although this cannot serve as evidence that the missile that hit the plane, if this is the case, was launched from the west," the general said.
Comment: For the sake of argument, if MH17 was fired on by a Buk system, as the Western media and politicians allege, it seems impossible for it to have been done by the anti-Kiev rebels (not to mention incomprehensible - why would the rebels fire on a civilian aircraft, or 'fire blind', when they had never done so before?), according to this analysis posted by the Saker. However, the Ukrainian-operated Buk systems in the area (as revealed by Russian satellite) were in range.
The French expert also complained that the investigation into the Boeing crash is lacking information and there is no surveillance data to confirm his version. Meanwhile, he rejected reports that the Malaysian plane was fired upon by an interceptor aircraft that « neutralized the pilots » and made the plane uncontrollable.
"Of course, the plane could have been downed this way. But this attack could not have taken place without leaving traces on the aircraft itself," he said. "I think that the plane could not have exploded like this if it had been fired upon from aircraft weapons," he added.
Comment: Du Verdier's objection to the idea that MH17 was fired upon by a jet is interesting. First, it would have left traces. German aviation expert Peter Haisenko argues that such traces are visible in the photographed cockpit fragments. Second, such an attack would not have caused the plane to explode in the manner it did. If this is the case, a bomb on the plane might have.
In a bitter irony, The BBC is censoring its own news productions.
Why did BBC delete this report by Olga Ivshina?
Is it because the BBC team was unable to find any evidence that a rocket was launched in the area that the Ukrainian Security Service ("SBU") alleges to be the place from which the Novorossiya Militia launched a "BUK" missile?
Or is it because every eyewitness interviewed by the BBC team specifically indicated the presence of a Ukrainian military aircraft right beside the Malaysian Airlines Boeing MH17 at the time that it was shot down?
Or is it because of eyewitness accounts confirming that the Ukrainian air force regularly used civilian aircraft flying over Novorossiya as human shields to protect its military aircraft conducting strikes against the civilian population from the Militia's anti-aircraft units?
Highlights of Witness statements (see complete transcript below)
Eyewitness #1: There were two explosions in the air. And this is how it broke apart. And [the fragments] blew apart like this, to the sides. And when ...
Eyewitness #2: ... And there was another aircraft, a military one, beside it. Everybody saw it.
Eyewitness #1: Yes, yes. It was flying under it, because it could be seen. It was proceeding underneath, below the civilian one.
Eyewitness #3: There were sounds of an explosion. But they were in the sky. They came from the sky. Then this plane made a sharp turn-around like this. It changed its trajectory and headed in that direction [indicating the direction with her hands].
Video: The Catastrophe of #MH17: #BBC in the Search of the "#BUK"
Comment: See: MH17 Who Dunnit? Western Media Silent on the Evidence
Asymmetric Warfare: MH17 False-Flag Terror and the 'War' on Gaza
Who shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17? New Cold War, same old propaganda
More evidence suggesting MH17 shot at from jet fighter
MH17 false flag? Emerging evidence points in that direction

Ukraine is a uniquely sensitive case for Russia; the countries are bound by deep social, cultural, and historical ties. Kiev is known as the “mother of Russia cities”. And even in Ukraine the Russians want influence, not actual territory.
Western policy has been built on two false premises. The first is that we must stop a revanchist Russia. As this narrative runs: yesterday Russia took Crimea; today Eastern Ukraine; tomorrow - who knows - Estonia, Poland? This precisely mirrors the Russian nightmare of predatory Nato expansion; yesterday Poland and Estonia, today Georgia, tomorrow - who knows - parts of Russia itself? The mutual suspicions of 1914 spring worryingly to mind.
Comment: Except that in the case of Russia, such fears are unfounded. The same can't be said for NATO.
In fact, before what the Russians (with some justification) saw as a Western grab last February for control in Kiev, there was no evidence of Russian revanchism. Those who point to Georgia are wrong - it was the Georgians who started the 2008 war. Meanwhile, Ukraine is a uniquely sensitive case for Russia; the countries are bound by deep social, cultural, and historical ties. Kiev is known as the "mother of Russia cities". And even in Ukraine the Russians want influence, not actual territory.
Comment: Russia is convinced, as is probably correct, that not only was it the Georgians who started the war, but it was the U.S. that incited Georgia to attack.











Comment: Hollywood, as an extension of the pathocracy, is there to manipulate the minds of the people into believing what they want you to believe.
The Pentagon-Hollywood Connection: Propaganda, censorship, and bribery
Argo: Hollywood as extension of CIA propaganda
If you want to capture true inhumanity without the filter of film, read: Telegenically Dead Palestinians and the Subversion of your Soul